A gypsy traveller who challenged the family of TV star Paddy Doherty to a fight by brandishing machetes in a YouTube video has been jailed for 29 months.
Raymond McIntyre, 33, donned a balaclava and held up blades as he threatened members of the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star’s clan.
McIntyre was at the centre of a feud between gypsy families and was seen shouting in the footage: ‘I’m coming for you.’
A gypsy traveller who challenged the family of TV star Paddy Doherty to a fight by brandishing machetes in a YouTube video has been jailed for 29 months
The video was filmed in Douglas, Lanarkshire, at the ‘king of the road’ horse and cart race meeting in May and has been viewed more than 24,000 times.
McIntyre appeared at Lanark Sheriff Court and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, shouting and swearing, and brandishing machetes.
He also admitted possessing the machetes and was jailed for 29 months by Sheriff Derek O’Carroll.
The 16-minute video features five men looking into the camera challenging rivals to a fight before bare-chested McIntyre appears wearing a balaclava with four weapons tucked into his shorts.
Raymond McIntyre, 33, donned a balaclava and held up blades as he threatened members of the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star’s clan
At one point he turns round to show scars on his back and lifts the balaclava to show the left side of his face.
The other men are seen flexing their muscles, shadow boxing and calling their rivals ‘dirty vermin’ as horses trot by in the background.
One man describes Doherty, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011, of telling lies about his fighting prowess.
At one point he turns round to show scars on his back and lifts the balaclava to show the left side of his face
Police were alerted to the video a week after it was posted online and McIntyre was arrested.
McIntyre’s not guilty plea to a charge that he uttered threats of violence including threats to murder Tommy Joyce were accepted by prosecutors.
Sandy Morrison, defending, said the recording of videos appeared to be a fad among the travelling community where they issued online challenges.
He added squabbles had previously been settled privately but were now been seen on the internet.
One man describes Doherty (pictured), who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011, of telling lies about his fighting prowess
In 2009, McIntyre, a labourer, was jailed for six years after he and four other men attacked a funeral party in Fife with weapons including machetes and knives.
The pre-planned attack left two brothers, also travellers, with ‘horrific’ injuries.
In July, McIntyre’s associate James McPhee was jailed for three years for using YouTube videos to organise a bare knuckle fight at Europe’s largest gypsy gathering.
McPhee, 43, goaded rival Alan Tunney with a series of clips posted online in the days leading up to the historic Appleby horse fair in Cumbria, last year.
McPhee, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, threatened to rip Tunney’s head off and urged him to bring other men along for a large-scale fight.
Tunney, 33, who is part of a travelling family from Doncaster, responded with videos of his own and has also been jailed for three years.